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Well, you all seem to be following directions well." Good... she was impressed. Or maybe her good mood was clouding her judgement... maybe...
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Next steps... Pull your wooden spoon, and add 3 spoonfulls of raw honey..." She looked over to the Gryffindor prefect. "
It doesn't have to be perfectly measured... you just add it by eye." She showed the students how to do it, letting the hot liquid melt off all the honey from the spoon. "
Take 5 basil leaves and slice them thin, as thin as you can, with your silver knife." And she did what she said to the letter. "
Now what you want to do is take a papaya, whole and with the same silver knife, stab the fruit and stuff some of the basil in the wound. Keep stabbing until you make enough holes for all of the basil. Then add it to the mixure. Whole."
1 whole Papaya
Janice took out her wooden spoon, scooped 3 spoonfulls of the honey Lafay mentioned.
Eww, she said in her mind.
I didn’t know that raw honey would be worse than processed honey.
Several years of cooking made her what she is: a fast slicer. She folded the basil leaves and started slicing them like slicing onions at home, and she was done in no time. She poked the fruit several times with the same knife, then stuffed the basil leaves in the holes, plunging it into the cauldron. She watched the liquid inside rippled and rose as the papaya sank down
whole, and shuddered. She has never liked papaya either.
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Droo The students were doing well. Good.
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Alright, take the ginger root and grate it directly over the cauldron. Then let simmer for about 5 minutes." She demonstrated, and then summoned reishi the mushroom showing it to the class.
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This red, heart shaped mushroom is called a reishi mushroom. It is nicknamed the mushroom of immortality because of its healing properties. Some muggles think it cures cancer, diabetes, liver problems... It depends on how it's used. Thinly slice all the mushrooms and add them to the cauldron. Take your wand and wave it over the cauldron with a fast strinking oblique motion and cast the spell." She said and once she was finished diffindoing them and adding them she performed the wand movement and cast "
Sanum!"
She took the ginger root and grated it like cheese, except that this is kind of harder. She looked at her wristwatch, then took the reishi mushrooms and sliced it thinly. She peered to her watch again, and there was still 3 minutes to spare.
2 and a half, she counted under her breath,
2, one and a half, one, three quarters, half of a minute, fifteen seconds, ten, five, yes! She using her knive, she slid the mushrooms into the cauldron. She reached for her wand and said “Sanum!” while slashing the air above the cauldron, wondering what spell could that be.
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Droo "Leave the cauldron to cool. The ones of your who are allergic now take a cupful and drink it, see if that works. Those who aren't. Can come here and retrieve a vial of this." She showed a potion that induced an allergy. Take the counter-measure and then take one of the items on the table to see which you are now allergic to.
Her jaw dropped. Was Lafay torturing them by go and have allergies and then see if this potion saves you?? Didn’t she know that bush daisies make rashes on top of rashes on top of rashes emerge unto the surface?? Janice knitted her eyebrows, prepared a cupful of her Antillergen potion on top of her workspace. She wondered which allergy should she have, dust, chocolate, bush daisies, or pineapples, and because pineapples are the mildest allergy, pineapples are it. One of the reasons why she didn’t choose chocolate is because she hates chocolate, and bush daisies would be too severe.
She took a slice of pineapple and bit it. After 5 seconds or so, a searing pain developed across her lips, then to her nose, cheeks, and chin. With a split-second thinking of to consume or not this potion with papaya and raw honey inside, she quickly gulped down the contents of the cup and breathed heavily. When her breath became normal again, she realized that the pain on her lips is gone. If she had a mirror, she would like to see the red stuff disappear out of her face.
Wow, she thought.
This potion is really useful!